{"id":12886,"date":"2016-06-04T10:11:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T17:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=12886"},"modified":"2016-06-04T10:18:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T17:18:11","slug":"microsoft-lowers-xbox-ones-entry-price-to-299","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/microsoft-lowers-xbox-ones-entry-price-to-299\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft lowers Xbox One\u2019s entry price to $299"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2016\/05\/psa-get-an-xbox-one-with-a-game-for-as-low-as-299\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/xboxgow-640x563.jpg?resize=330%2C290\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a surprise move ahead of next month&#8217;s Electronic Entertainment Expo, Microsoft has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-us\/xbox-one\/consoles\">lowered the price on almost all of its Xbox One bundles by $50<\/a>. That means you can now get a 500GB Xbox One bundled with either <i>Quantum Break<\/i>, <i>Gears of War: Ultimate Edition<\/i>, <i>The Lego Movie Videogame<\/i>,<i>Forza Motorsport 6<\/i>, <i>Rise of the Tomb Raider<\/i>, or <i>Rare Replay<\/i> for just $299. Systems with a 1TB hard drive and other bundled games range from $319 to $349.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A system with a Kinect camera and three compatible games is now $349, while one with an Elite controller and a 1TB hard drive is $449.<\/p>\n<p>While the prices are listed as &#8220;for a limited time&#8221; on the Microsoft website, other online retailers seem to be matching the sudden, platform-wide price drop. The Xbox One previously dropped to $299 as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2015\/11\/psa-xbox-one-drops-to-299-w-a-game-for-black-friday-weekend\/\">some holiday<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2015\/12\/psa-xbox-one-ps4-bundles-back-down-to-299-for-holidays\/\">season deals<\/a> in 2015 and again as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2016\/03\/psa-get-an-xbox-one-with-two-games-for-299\/\">a Microsoft Store promotion in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pullbox sidebar story-sidebar right\">\n<h3 class=\"further-reading\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"story-sidebar-part\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Back in 2014, some retailers <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2014\/03\/xbox-one-price-cut-expands-to-microsoft-store-other-retailers\/\">temporarily lowered the price of the Xbox One to $449<\/a> before Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2014\/05\/microsoft-announces-kinect-free-xbox-one-on-sale-june-9\/\">officially lowered the price to $399<\/a> by pulling Kinect out of the bundle and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2014\/10\/microsoft-cuts-xbox-one-prices-as-low-as-349-for-holiday-season\/\">then to $349 by the 2014 holiday season<\/a>. The PlayStation 4 <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2015\/10\/sony-ps4-price-drops-to-350-in-the-us-429-in-canada-uk-likely-soon\/\">also dropped to $349 last October<\/a>\u00a0and was<a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2015\/11\/sony-matches-xbox-one-with-299-price-for-black-friday-weekend\/\">briefly available for $299<\/a> during the 2015 holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>This latest price reduction comes as Microsoft is widely rumored to be <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2016\/05\/reports-microsoft-preparing-multiple-xbox-upgrades-over-next-two-years\/\">planning the announcement of a new, smaller, and possibly cheaper Xbox One at E3<\/a>, along with a more powerful, VR-capable edition of the console set for 2017. Making the old, &#8220;outdated&#8221; version of the console a bit cheaper would certainly be a good way to soften the ground for those announcements, even if the evidence is still\u00a0circumstantial at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprise move ahead of next month&#8217;s Electronic Entertainment Expo, Microsoft has lowered the price on almost all of its Xbox One bundles by $50. That means you can now get a 500GB Xbox One bundled with either Quantum Break, Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, The Lego Movie Videogame,Forza Motorsport 6, Rise of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-3lQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12940,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/microsoft-announces-xbox-s-project-scorpio\/","url_meta":{"origin":12886,"position":0},"title":"Microsoft Announces Xbox S, Project Scorpio\u00a0","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"June 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The biggest announcement at Microsoft's E3 conference was that the rumors were all true - a new slimmed down Xbox One dubbed the 'Xbox One S' is coming later this year. 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